@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@gjacobse said in Non-IT News Thread:
That is just nuts -
Wow. Several people being forcibly moved from a democracy to a non-democracy isn't cool.
Think they'll make it a special economic zone like Hong Kong? 
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Serena Williams engaged to Reddit co-founder
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38464603
In my old house I was working on putting in H0 scale all along the walls in the basement, going through the walls as tunnels, etc, even through the bathroom. I wanted to add in a bunch of stuff to control with a computer, but I never got around to it, simply not enough time. I did manage to have nearly 250 meters of HO scale track
I only like H0 scale, I hate anything bigger. I especially hate that S scale garbage Lionel puts (used to put, mostly) out, it's huge, overpriced, and essentially is best for some boring circular setup. 00 scale is OK too.
I really like H0 scale because you can order it from America for cheaper than similar sizes from Germany, and with far, far more selection. This used to be more true, less true now. I remember going to Toys R Us on 6th Ave in NYC and getting each new/different H0 scale starter kit, because they always had strange box cars and so forth you couldn't really find in hobby shops, and they were cheap as hell by comparison.
The most expensive car I ever bought was the Hershey's one, which did indeed smell like chocolate, it was awesome.
I mostly sold all of my stuff on eBay after 9/11, but I had 67 different HO scale cars, I have pictures some place I'll look for.
Some kits I got multiple of because they were on sale and I wanted the parts and it was cheaper than hobby shops, those were typically:
This one back when it had pin rails instead of this snap together garbage:
From time to time they'd come out though with different cars, but be in the same box, and in fact I think the latter one I saw more than any other, but with varying cars.
In some cases in order to get more realism, if you cannot find the cars independently, you gotta buy like 4 or 5 of the same kit. This is especially true with passenger trains:
I do remember when I first got into this after arriving in America, Toys R Us had individual cars for sale, but that seemed to disappear by 2000 for some reason.
@scottalanmiller said in Invoice Ninja, Open Source Invoicing:
@tonyshowoff said in Invoice Ninja, Open Source Invoicing:
Super cool.
Hey, where have you been hiding?
Rewriting the backend for our biggest site, switched most to node.js. Already have a performance increase.
So if it doesn't provide privilege escalation and only allows you to access processes which you are running, then how is it really any different from any normal hooking? So yes, it's unpatchable in the same way deleting all the files in your own home directory in Unix is unpatchable.
Looking at the code as well... we were doing this stuff years ago to see what was being sent wrapped in SSL for reverse engineering purposes, because tcpdump or whatever couldn't read it.
I'm a veteran, but not of an American war, however Americans did help in our war to our benefit, so thank you American veterans!
I'm not sure why I didn't think of this with EXPLAIN in MySQL it seems pretty obvious, because it works better than "use man pages" because when you build up tons of stuff, sprinkle syntactical sugar all over it, it can even be slightly difficult for experts to understand.
Great idea!
It's 2016 and there are still tons and tons of zombies out there, it's pretty crazy.
I had the change the integer length for our video queue, it overflowed and for about 2 hours people couldn't upload videos, or rather they would upload but the final step would stall. So 2 hours without being able to post porno means I got about 700 messages about this issue. sigh great thing to wake up to.